Mawuli Tugbenyoh, a gay man who’s the newly-permanent executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, wants to move forward after the agency was rocked by scandal. He had stepped into the role as acting head last October and was sworn in by Mayor Daniel Lurie September 22.

Lurie had permanently appointed Tugbenyoh, 43, to the position September 19. The immediate past co-chair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Tugbenyoh had been deputy director in the San Francisco Department of Human Resources.

Cheryl Davis, the former head of the HRC, resigned in disgrace last year after it was revealed she signed off on $1.5 million in contracts with nonprofit Collective Impact, run by a man with whom she shared a home address and a car. Davis was required to disclose this

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